Medical workers conduct COVID-19 testing (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) –
Vietnam on May 24 reported its , who is a
50-year-old man with a number of underlying health conditions,
the said.
The patient was hospitalised at the General
Hospital of northern Hai Duong province and his blood culture was identified as
positive to multi-drug resistant Ochrobactrum anthropic bacteria. He was
subsequently given a five-day course of antibiotics but it failed to alleviate
the infection.
He was transferred to the National Hospital
of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi on April 25, where he was diagnosed with sepsis
and cirrhosis ascites. On May 5, he was confirmed positive to coronavirus
SARS-CoV-2.
As conditions became worse, he died on May
23 night due to septic shock, multi-organ failure, sepsis, gastrointestinal
bleeding, and SARS-CoV-2 infection with underlying condition noted as ascites
in liver cirrhosis.
This has been the eighth death in the
fourth wave of hitting Vietnam since April 27 with a few clusters
detected in the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases and the National Cancer
Hospital in Hanoi./.
Source: VietnamPlus
